America’s Cup in 1992
NZPA-AAP Perth An America’s Cup regatta will definitely be held in 1992, but the venue will be decided by a court case early next year. The decision on when the next challenge for what used to be yachting’.s most coveted trophy will take place was announced after a meeting of interested parties in Perth yesterday. Terry Palmer, the Commodore of the Royal Perth Yacht Club, the Challenger of Record, said it had been resolved that the Cup would definitely be sailed in either Auckland or San Diego. The venue depended on the result of a court battle in the United States between the San Diego Yacht Club and the Mercury Bay Yacht Club of New Zealand. Lawyer Andrew Johns, representing Mercury Bay’s Michael Fay,
said the most significant result of yesterday’s meeting was to focus everyone’s attention on the sailing aspect of the America’s Cup. “The challengers are now locked into 1992, whether it is Auckland or San Diego,” Mr Johns said. Representatives of 12 challenging nations met in Perth and, among other things, decided their $U525,000 ($NZ42,977) deposits were now not returnable. According to the R.P.Y.C.’s America’s Cup Committee chairman, Dr Stan Reid, the meeting helped put the America’s Cup competition back to “where it should be”. “It is now back where it was in 1987,” Dr Reid said. “What has come through clearly is that the America’s Cup is not just another regatta.” Dates for the hearing of final
appeals in the sorry saga of the last America’s Cup were set in New York last Monday. According to the schedule, the Mercury Bay YC will file its appeal on December 14, San Diego will file January 12 and Mercury Bay then has 10 days to reply before a hearing begins. It is expected a decision will be reached by mid-April. Commenting on the case, which has so far been through two lower courts — each of which has come up with a different result — Mr Johns said it was Mercury Bay’s belief that no defender can ever knowingly, create a gross mismatch, as was the case when the Americans used a catamaran to beat the New Zealand monohull in San Diego.
“We have to argue that one more time,” he said.
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